1897: British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hangedhttp://www.angelfire.com/ma/chaitanya/chapekar.html

1978: Ratification by Japan, of the January 30, 1974 treaty with South Korea on the delimitation of the continental shelf between the two countries

1979: At their Vienna summit, the countries of the G7 ask for the total withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan

1982: At Kuala Lumpur, the political forces opposed to the regime intalled in Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese agree to form a Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea, led by Sihanoukhttp://countrystudies.us/cambodia/72.htm

1987: The Taiwan National Security Law was passed in Legislative Yuan on this day, and was set to replace Martial Law which will be lifted on July 15

2002: During the annual congress of the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO), Mahathir announces that he is resigning from the chairmanship of the party and the government. He will renounce an hour later at the request of the party leaders

2011: Taiwan lifts a decades-old ban on travel to the island by individual Chinese tourists, saying visitors would act as « peace ambassadors » for the former arch foe. Initially, Taiwan will allow 500 individual arrivals from the mainland per day
2012: China and the remote Himalayan nation of Bhutan agree to establish diplomatic relations and resolve a long-standing border dispute, China’s foreign ministry says.http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120622-354801.html

2012: South Korea’s population will exceed 50 million on Saturday 23, making it the 26th country to reach the mark, according to a report from Statistics Korea.

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